I am sure all of you are depressed with today’s news so I am trying to be positive today and hopefully the rambling below might make you smile!

This year I have been in touch with some people I was at school with (having not been in touch with some of them for fifty years (yes I am old). We fondly recalled a game of cards we played as hard working sixth formers in our free periods and lunch time (we should of been studying). The name we called it was “Dirty Emma” and the idea was to lose the Queen of Spades (another name I’ve heard it called was Chase the Lady), we developed stylish flourishes for putting down the Queen. We developed this through our two years in the 6th form till so we split into two teams called the “Straights” and the “Curlies” -it referred to our hair nothing else! Our team (guess which one I was in) developed  an elaborate cheating system to give our team clues to the cards we were holding that the “Straights” had no idea about. We were winning regularly which they put down to bad luck. Then one memorable game one of our number starting scratching his knee vigorously (meaning lead with Hearts) which wouldn’t of been so bad until he said “How about some…..” and started scratching even more-so the cat was out of the bag so from that moment on both teams developed even more complicated cheating systems. Surprisingly none of us were recruited by M.I. 5  at least I don’t think so. All that waffle is so I can put in the picture below. There is also a picture of me just out in a School House Match- you might find it hard to believe I once had that much hair!.

I thought my football team played well today and could of easily won against a team that just came out of the Premier League.